More from Oi Papatzides // The Swindlers

It seems a while since we visited a prison, and the prisons in Greece (at least the movie-music-world-variety), what with their ever-present baglamas, are always worth visiting.  I'm not sure if there is another country on God's green earth that has an official-instrument-of-the-penal-system, but the world would be a better place if all countries followed Greece's lead and issued baglamas on arraignment.  See here and here for some other scenes of life in the pokey!

This video, more than others, does justice to the baglama by letting it speak for itself - no overdubs here! 

This scene from features an unbandaged Petros Giannakkos as well as another mustachioed fellow trading off some fine picking and singing.  I am almost sure it is Nikos Stavridis who remains, uncharacteristically, in profile the entire clip.  No idea whether this was from before or after the ill fated craps gam that produced the thrown furniture (to make sense of all this, see last week's post).

The clip ends with a brief and seemingly unrelated (thematically and tonally) scene that is well worth watching.